A tribute to the furry local heroes who helped get residents through many tough times.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

Owned by no one but beloved by all, Brownie was a good dog.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

How Quincy, Florida became the richest town per capita due to one man's shrewd business acumen and taste for fizzy drinks.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

This historic headstone is said to mark the final resting place of a doubly-dead white witch.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.